Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice (27) gets introduced prior to the game against the Cincinnati Bengals in November at M&T Bank Stadium. / Evan Habeeb, USA TODAY Sports

by Christine Brennan, USA TODAY Sports

by Christine Brennan, USA TODAY Sports

Out of the hundreds of NFL interviews that will take place over the next two days as training camps chug along and the year's first preseason game approaches, two particular media availabilities stand out.

One is in Owings Mills, Md., the other in Canton, Ohio.

Neither one was set up to right a wrong, but that should be their purpose now.

On Thursday, Ray Rice, who has become the most discussed and disliked athlete in the nation over the past week, is scheduled to stand in front of the news media at the Baltimore Ravens' training facility. If ever there were a moment for a man to try to begin to make some sort of amends for knocking out his soon-to-be wife, then being caught on videotape trying to drag her listless body out of an elevator, and receiving only a two-game suspension as punishment, this is it.

Rice should come to the news conference ready to announce any number of significant actions on his part, both financial and personal, to prevent domestic violence and to support women who are the victims of violence from men like him. At a time when outrage against Rice and his light sentence is at its greatest, he should begin to explain exactly how he'll change himself ‚?? and in doing so, try to change the lives of millions of abused women.

Rice should present a serious and sustained plan for how he's going to help women who are battered and abused. He should talk specifically about the treatment he is undergoing. He should speak directly to his fellow abusers to do everything in his power to encourage them to stop and get into similar programs.

He should donate money, lots of money. The $529,000 fine he is giving up from not two, but three, game paychecks is going into programs for retired NFL players. That's all well and good, but he should at the very least match it with a donation of his own to stop people like him from ever doing what he did in that elevator.

Rice shouldn't for one moment be fooled into thinking the sports world has already moved on from this and from him. Hanging around Ravens fans could give him that impression. These are the people who spotted him on the stadium video board the other day and broke into joyful and robust applause. What in the world is wrong with these people?

As sickening as this was, fans are fans, and cheering for the laundry in sports is a given. It also must be said that these are some of the same people who spent more than a decade loving Ray Lewis after his involvement in a still-unsolved double murder, so the bar has been set pretty low for ‚?? how shall we say it? ‚?? misbehavior by the Ravens.

After Rice speaks, the Ravens should announce that they are matching him word for word, step for step, dollar for dollar. If this sounds like a heavy obligation, it is. This is a very big deal.

Then comes Friday, and Commissioner Roger Goodell's opportunity with the press at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The NFL and some of its players have made inroads into domestic violence prevention over the last few years, yet that's all but forgotten now. Goodell should present a plan too, adding the league's considerable financial resources and energy to this issue right away.

The damage has been done with that far-too-lenient two-game suspension. It's time to start undoing it.